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Advanced EFS Data Recovery is a lightweight cross-platform utility built specifically for helping you recover encrypted files from NTFS drives.

It boasts a clean and straightforward interface that gives you the possibility to set up the scanning process for encrypted files. Thanks to its step-by-step approach, you are offered guidance throughout the entire procedure. Advanced users may skip this step and configure the settings directly from the primary panel.

You can select the disks to be scanned for keys, add information about the user name and password, upload passwords from dictionary files, insert SYSKEY startup passwords, as well as specify the name of the certificate and password. What’s more, the program comes packed with backup capabilities, and it also allows you to restore data.

Advanced EFS Data Recovery enables you to perform searches for locating encrypted files, and you can select the disks. It offers time estimation for completing the job and displays the number of scanned files and encrypted items. Depending on the size of the files on the disk, it might take some time to carry out the scanning operation.

What’s more, the application offers quick access to the files and folders stored in your computer, so you can easily pick the encrypted files. The decrypted files are colored with green, while the items that are still encrypted are displayed with red.

Additionally, you can enable the logging process by specifying the filename and saving directory, limit the size of the log to a specified value, and overwrite the existing files.

All in all, Advanced EFS Data Recovery gives you a hand whenever you need to decrypted files. Thanks to its scanning modes for finding encrypted files and keys, even less experienced users can master this program.

Advanced EFS Data Recovery was reviewed by Ana Marculescu, last updated on June 19th, 2014